Anxiety
Quotes - Our minds are truly the one place where no one else can follow us.
“The
mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.”
―
Marwane Caber, THE PAST
“The
anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story.”
―
Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“It
is okay to own a technology, what is not okay is to be owned by technology.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“People
are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new
experiences” or whatever. But the anxiety leading up to spending time with them
and the emotional drain afterward make them not worth it.”
―
Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
“Our
minds are truly the one place where no one else can follow us. Even if we try,
if we constantly express every thought that comes to mind, if we exist as a
walking stream of consciousness, we won’t be able to convey everything that’s
going on. There are emotions and feelings and sensations that we’d never be
able to articulate.”
―
Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
“Closeness
eases the anxiety and depression of believing that no one really cares about
you. It softens the frustration and anger that come with feeling that no one
understands you. Suddenly, others become available to us. Suddenly, we feel
better inside.”
―
Kira Asatryan, Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close
Friendships and Deep Relationships
“Everyone
must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.”
―
Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter
“My
experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.”
―
Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
“Illness
has a lot to teach wellness. But when I am ill I forget these things. The trick
is to keep hold of that knowledge. To turn recovery into prevention. To live
how I live when I am ill, without being ill.”
―
Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“He
told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that
if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he
had the potential and the means to do it”
―
Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
“Anxiety
always originates from a lie. All lies, whether self generated or accepted from
another person, will resonate as a pendulum swinging to and fro as a reminder
of an inconsistency with truth and impeccability. The further the lie is
carried, the more the intensity of anxiety builds. The feeling may begin as
unease, building to angst, translating to anxiety, panic, and even dread.
Ultimately, anxiety creates stagnancy. What's the solution? Speak the truth
even if it scares you. Be authentic.”
―
Deborah Bravandt
“As
the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in her book How Emotions Are
Made, “You may think that in everyday life, the things you see and hear
influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around: What you feel
alters your sight and hearing.” People who are scared take in a scene
differently. Our ears, for example, immediately adjust to focus on high and low
frequencies—a scream or a growl—rather than midrange frequencies, which include
normal human speech. Anxiety narrows our attention and diminishes our
peripheral vision. A feeling of happiness, by contrast, widens our peripheral
vision. A person who feels safe because of the reliable and empathetic presence
of others will see the world as a wider, more open, and happier place.
The
people who practice effective empathy have suffered in ways that give them
understanding and credibility.”
―
David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being
Deeply Seen
“After
a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto
permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”
―
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From
Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“I
was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship
with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes
aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.”
―
St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“I
feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl
reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on
me.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Anxiety
is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
―
Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
“You're
stressing over things that haven't even happened yet.”
―
Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us
“Quite
collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile
in my head
I'm
undergoing open-heart surgery.”
―
Anne Sexton, Transformations
“How
does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart,
slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
―
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
“I’m
going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I
finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“While
writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my
former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.”
―
Tiffany Madison
